Setting It Up: DefinitionInstitutional Issues

I. A tale of two worlds
II. Poverty in the South
III. The best of the West: thinking big
IV The third sector and the Third World

Part Two: What We Know

V. Technology in history: lies and promises
VI. Small is beautiful
VII. Farmers, food and forests
VIII. Post-harvest technologies
IX. Energy and power
X. The house that Jack built: construction materials
XI. Light engineering and the very late starters

Part Three: An Enabling Environment

XII. Perspectives on women and technology
XIII. Employment and the informal sector: the economists lose control
XIV. Technology: the policy factor
XV. Mastering the machine